About Matt Parkins
Matt Parkins, together with his wife Jo, are from the UK. He has been blogging since early 2002 and using the internet since before the web was created and ascii art was still cool. He realised the other day that he often searches out pieces of information that other people might also find useful. Although matt's interests are usually techie based, often it can just be random thoughts and ideas and 'where did the name for this come from?' kind of stuff!
After school and college Matt left home to work at Gremlin Interactive/Infogrames as a games tester. He then moved on to games programming as he had hoped from the beginning. Matt worked in the Research & Development team at various times and was a programmer on Micro Machines (PS2, GameCube, XBox) and UEFA Challenge (PS1, PS2, PC). The Sheffield studio was closed in 2003.
Matt spent time on staff at St Thomas' Anglican & Baptist church in Sheffield, UK, as a ministerial assistant to Mike Breen and afterwards set up his own business doing PHP contracting & web development. In 2005 both he & Jo sensed a call to leave Sheffield and serve missionary friends around the globe as led by God whilst still doing the odd bit of contract programming. In 2008 they returned to the UK to pursue ordained ministry.
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Matt Parkins has been a commercial IT expert for many years. He is often searching for help, answers and solutions to all kinds of questions or problems - from tech help to general knowledge and trivia - he can't be the only one asking these questions so he's put the fruit of his labour here to save you the trouble!